We are proud to announce the release of OpenOrienteering Mapper 0.9.0. This official release includes a lot of work which was made available for testing via unstable “dev” pre-releases. Key changes since 0.8.4 are:

ISOM 2017-2 symbol set.

File formats:

Significantly improved OCD format support, including export up to version 12, georeferencing and symbol icons.

GeoTIFF template support.

Geospatial vector data export.

Tool improvements:

The Edit-objects tool respects corners.

The Scale-objects tool optionally resizes multiple objects in their original location.

Android:

Adjustable tool button size.

64-bit support.

Standby/background operation improvements.

“Touch mode” available for PCs:

Keyboard-less fullscreen editing like on Android.

GPS support also for Windows/macOS/Linux.
Note that access to the Windows location requires .NET Framework 4 and Powershell 2 (included in Windows 10).

Significant modernization of 3rd-party components (Qt 5.12, PROJ 6, GDAL 3).
Note that this also means that some older versions of operating system are no longer supported by Mapper.

Less visible but nevertheless important is the introduction of a continuous integration process with test automation for macOS, Linux and Windows on the Azure Pipelines services from Microsoft. Together with the Open Build Service for Linux, all release packages are created in an automated way now. This greatly improves our ability to do frequent releases with confidence in quality.

This release contains 845 commits with 517 changed files since v0.8.4. As usual, many thanks go to the 14 contributors, but also to all those who helped finding issues with the ‘dev’ pre-releases. There is work-in-progress on ISSprOM 2019, but it is not included yet.

Mapper 0.9.0 is coming closer. There has been a lot of progress since v0.8.4.
While we didn’t report any details here, we continued to provide snapshots of
the development work for testing. The ‘unstable’ builds we used to provide for
Windows via Open Build Service have been replaced by ‘dev’ builds for Windows,
macOS and Android, published on our Releases page on Github. These builds are
done on Microsoft’s Azure Pipelines service now, and we will create the official
releases in the same way. Continuous integration in Azure Pipelines already
helped a lot in verifying the quality of the source code.

The latest ‘dev’ build was published yesterday. Its major addition is support
for enabling touch mode (i.e. the mobile user interface) on PCs, and access to
the GPS location on Windows (for tracking in touch mode).

Since v0.8.4, the most prominent improvement is the extended OCD import and export,
which now covers more versions and features. Another addition is GeoTIFF support.
Of course there were significant updates to third-party components, and updates
required for supporting new Android versions.

By testing the dev builds, you can help us to remove sharp edges before releasing
Mapper 0.9.0.

There is work-in-progress on ISSprOM 2019 and ISOM 2017-2 symbol sets, but these
are not included yet.